How to use "life" in a sentence

I've just lost half of the rest of my life.

I am so certain of this that I take the knife and write the dates of my life on the canyon wall

I just want to stay there for the rest of my life.

Just before I left, I looked at the dates of my life on the canyon wall

My life didn't end in the canyon

My accident changed my life

"But why did you risk your life to save mine?"

"Your life, sir, is more important than mine."

This ship, and my own life, is a secret to the outside world

"You will not find life on the Nautilus so bad

You know a lot about sea life

I enjoy sea life."

I enjoyed seeing all the strange sea life of these waters

He was a whale hunter and his life was above the water, hunting whales.

He loves the sea, yes, but here is something missing from his life

"You saved my life, Mr Land

Conseil loved the sea, but I did not think he wanted to live his life there

"You saved my life!"

One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination

What is more, I have done every one of these things in my life, and nobody has questioned the constitutional character of it.

In every dark hour of our national life, a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory

We aim at the assurance of a rounded, a permanent national life.

For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life

Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet

Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?

'Was it a life insurance policy?'

Your life depends on it!'

The three of us have saved your niece's life!'

'My life is ended now.'

But her taste for alcohol dominated her life, and eventually she had to walk the streets as a prostitute.

He had a morbid interest in the Ripper murders all his life, and it is possible that he sent 'Ripper' letters to the police

His gloomy paintings of murder scenes were part of his vision as an artist: he liked to paint the dark, squalid side of life

He lived a simple life with his sister, Mademoiselle Baptistine, and his old servant, Madame Magloire, and he was much loved by the people in the town

He became a very wealthy man but lived a simple life, using most of his money to build new hospitals and schools

After all her pain and suffering she had, for the first time in her life, found kindness in another human being

At last she would be cared for, and she could look forward to a life of happiness with Cosette

If he's found guilty of stealing from the bishop - who, as you know, died a couple of years ago - and of robbing the small boy, he'll spend the rest of his life in prison.'

Fantine smiled, and began to talk dreamily about her future life with her daughter, and how happy they would be together

She let him carry the bucket up the hill and, as they walked back towards the village, she told him everything about her life with the Thenardiers

'You've saved my life

Pontmercy, wanting his son to have a good life, had sadly given him to M

My life was saved at Waterloo by a sergeant

Life was hard for him, but he never forgot the promise he had made his father: that he would find Thenardier, the man who had saved his father's life, and help him in any way he could.

Marius paid little attention to his friend, and continued his quiet life of work, study and daily walks.

A second later she looked away and Marius walked on but, in a strange way, he knew his life had changed

Whatever it was, Marius sensed that, after that moment, his life would never be the same.

Without 'Ursula', his life had become meaningless, work disgusted him, walking tired him, solitude bored him.

As Marius was thinking about the sad life of the family in the next room, he stared dreamily at the wall that separated them

In the bright mist that clouded his vision, Marius could hardly see the features of the sweet face that had lit his life for six months and had then disappeared, filling his life with darkness

We deserve a better life, and this is our chance.'

'That's the name of the man who saved my father's life at the Battle of Waterloo

I was a war hero, you know - I saved an officer's life at Waterloo! And you call me a criminal! Well, I'm going to teach you a lesson.'

But the main reason for his unhappiness was that he was forced to live his life with no hope of seeing 'Ursula'.

Now, for the first time, there was a cloud in the clear blue sky of his life

I'm going to throw away my youth, my career, my whole life, and dive into poverty with a woman around my neck..

For the first time in their life together, he and Cosette had quarrelled

If he kept the letter in his pocket, Cosette would never know what had happened to the other man, and life with her would continue the same as before

For the sake of Cosette's happiness, he would have to try and save the life of the man she loved - the man he hated more than any other in the world.

'You saved a man's life by giving him your uniform

The poor man, unable to understand the kindness and gentle nature of the man he had spent his whole life hating, had taken his own life by jumping from a bridge

Marius lay for a long time between life and death in a state of fever, endlessly repeating the name of Cosette.

Second, there was the mysterious stranger who had saved his life

He risked his life to save a dying man, and why? He was a total stranger

It was the happiest night of Cosette's life, spoilt only by one thing: the fact that her guardian - whom she still thought of as her father - went home before the feast had started, saying that he felt ill

She had Marius, and she would be happy with him for the rest of her life!

He remembered the little girl he had rescued from the Thenardiers ten years earlier, and felt sad that he was no longer the most important man in her life

Marius listened quietly as Valjean told him everything about his life

He did not return to the house again, and Cosette was too busy with married life to think too much about him

Marius thought it was right to exclude Valjean from Cosette's life

Apart from the details about his life that Valjean had confessed to him, he knew that Valjean had killed Inspector Javert at the barricade

If you hadn't saved my father's life at Waterloo, I'd report you to the police

I know that your wife is dead, but take the money and start a new life in America with your daughter

'He was the man who saved my life

And do you know what he did? He saved my life and he brought me back to you

Madeleine and that you saved Javert's life at the barricade? Why didn't you tell me that I owed you my life?'

You must enjoy life, my children

No, you either get out of the city for life, or Big Jones finds you

The suitcase that can help him escape the country and live the rest of his life on a tropical island in the Bahamas.

I will lead a quiet and honest life." And Barry imagines the beaches of the Bahamas.

Content with his job, his life, his expensive house and his two expensive cars.

The forest is alive with life.

Good, hey? That's the scent of life

But that's life.

"What a life! Too many people, no jobs, and rain, rain, rain."

It was true; life for most people was difficult

Your whole body lay inside the pod and it was like your normal life was turned off

Sala's grandmother remembered life before the Oil Wars, when people could travel freely and see other parts of the world

It was tiny, but full of life; Gran was managing to grow all sorts of plants

Was this the best life they could hope for?

"Well, I suppose I'm thinking that maybe, just maybe, there is still life in the outside world - and maybe someone from that world has found a way across the city boundary."

He wanted to get on in life

"And two years of your life is a high price to pay."

"Fantastic, more like! That was the best thing I've ever done in my life

Real life is difficult, but it's..

Back at home that afternoon, Sala thought about Niki's words: it was true that because she was with Cham, life felt exciting

I'm just angry with life."

I want you to know that I have a good, happy life with my wife

Sala couldn't believe how much her life was suddenly changing, but she didn't try to discuss it with Cham

A new life

This world, the city with its wrist chips and simulators, was the only one they knew, but Gran often talked about life before the Oil Wars - how they used to walk freely in the forests, grow flowers and fruit, sing songs around fires on the beach, and travel to wonderful places

Instead, she thought of Oban and Wena, and Gran's dreams about a life outside

She brought out her paints, and, sitting in her room, started working on a picture: the green leaves of Gran's Real Space, bright and bursting with life; gray tower blocks in the background

Sala imagined Cham and Ding in their strange virtual life

but on the other, her life with Cham had never felt more uncertain.

So we really believe now that there's a better life out there

What would I be today if I had not gone to Monte Carlo with Mrs Van Hopper? I would have lived another life

I hated my life with Mrs Van Hopper, but she paid me a little money to be her companion

He did not talk about his life there, but about the house itself

Something happened a year ago that changed my whole life

It was bold and full of life

They must have been full of the life they had shared.

She could see that I was awkward and shy, and a little afraid of my new life at Manderley.

This sort of life is new to me

This is how I thought life at Manderley would be.

So full of life

It will make such a difference to his life

'Yes, I suppose she was the most beautiful woman I ever saw in my life.'

But I'm not used to this kind of life

My life at Manderley was turning me into a woman.

'Then, one night, I could stand our life here no longer

We talked about the weather and Colonel Julyan asked me about my life in France

But I can still make life unpleasant for you

Whatever happened to us, life at Manderley would go on

And if that were the case, then he might have ended up in a foster home, in a new life

She thought of herself as a tough, competent, levelheaded woman who was able to deal with anything life threw at her, and she was disturbed by her continuing inability to accept Danny's death.

That was how it had been during the last months of their life together

Tomorrow was one of the most important days of her life: December 30

She took time off to carry and give birth to Danny, then to spend uninterrupted days with him during his first few months of life

She would never forget him, that sweet child who had been such a large part of her, but she would no longer have to live her life around the gaping hole that he had left in it

As long as she left his things undisturbed, she could continue to entertain the hope that Danny was not dead, that he was just away somewhere for a while, and that he would shortly pick up his life where he had left off

He was so rich that he could retire and live the rest of his life in the high style and splendor for which he had a taste

She loved them as much as life itself, and she knew they truly wanted her with them; they were not inviting her out of a misguided sense of guilt and obligation

A life like that would be intolerable.

She prayed that she would remain healthy enough to continue working and living on her own until, at last, her time came and all the little windows on the machine of life produced lemons.

As she was mopping the last corner of the kitchen floor, as she was thinking about how dreary life would be without her friends and her slot machines, she heard a sound in another part of the house

As she listed her blessings, Tina was astonished at how much difference one year could make in a life

The heating system rumbled to life, and for a couple of minutes at a time, the blower whispered wordlessly as hot air pushed through the vents.

Tina's terror over Danny's impending entombment was suddenly mixed with fear for her own life

"There's more to life than just having a flashy career," Michael said pontifically

"Home life counts for something

That has to be a part of life too

These last few days, as your show's been getting ready to open, I've had the feeling you might finally realize you need something more in life, something a lot more emotionally satisfying than whatever it is you can get out of just producing stage shows."

But merely drifting along in the currents of life wasn't enough for Tina

She had been determined that neither of them would have reason to feel that his importance in her life had diminished

As long as she remained a dancer, as long as she devoted her life to him, as long as she hung on his arm and looked delicious, he approved of her

"I'm not pining for the domestic life

"Don't get mad at me, okay? We both want the same thing - a home life, a good family life

"Yes, you're right, I do want a home life, a satisfying family life

But did you ever stop to realize what effect your absences had on Danny? If you loved family life so much, why didn't you spend all those weekends with your son?"

We were talking about family life, about Danny."

She'd had enough gloom in her life

After so much talk about death, she needed a glimpse of movement, action, life; and although the Strip sometimes was grubby in the flat glare of the desert sun, the boulevard was always, day or night, bustling and filled with life.

Good, healthy lovemaking with a man who cared for her would have helped her recover much faster than she had done, for sex was the antithesis of death, a joyous celebration of life, a denial of the tomb's existence.

"And this is real life

His grisly head stood on the driver's seat beside him, grinning fiendishly, filled with malevolent life even though it had been brutally severed from his body.

"Makes life interesting."

The story was set in the mid-nineteenth century, when a physician's perception of the thin line between life and death was often cloudy

strange parallels existed between this gruesome tale and the recent ugliness in her own life.

Living the good life

"And I sure wouldn't choose to have my nice, peaceful, quiet life turned upside down

True to the rhythm of Vegas life, someone was just beginning his day with a hearty breakfast

She wanted to be enjoying an ordinary meal, on an ordinary evening, in the middle of a blissfully ordinary life, with every reason to expect a long, comfortable, ordinary future

But when Bruckster had come into the hotel thirty minutes ago, Evans had been chatting with the players at his blackjack table, cracking jokes, and grinning as if nothing of any importance had happened in his life lately.

That was something one tended to forget when he spent his life in the intelligence game

here you are, running for your life, and all because of me."

After encountering so many people with so little respect for human life, they needed to convince themselves that they really were more than dust in the wind.

It's just that for more than fifteen years, I've led a very ordinary life, a workaday life

All of his life, for reasons he had never been able to fully ascertain, he had been fascinated by death, intrigued by the form and nature and possibilities of it, enthralled by the study and theory of its meaning

And this is a matter of life and death."

Apparently, Billy liked his view of the world to be as neat and uncluttered as everything else about him; if he started believing in ghosts, he'd have to reconsider his opinions about a lot of other things too, and then life would become intolerably messy.

"But apparently it isn't life-threatening," Dombey said quickly

There doesn't appear to be anything life-threatening about the parietal spot, but you sure should keep a watch on it."

"The hermit's life agrees with me, and the pay is good," Dombey said

Not until she and Elliot figured out what effect that revelation would have on the boy's life.

I explained my secret life as Leigh in the afterword to the new edition of Shadowfires

In each subsequent meeting, one or the other would show up to take story notes on their latest draft, while the missing partner would always have been waylaid by an emergency of one kind or another: a broken washing machine and a flooded laundry room, the sudden-onset illness of a cat with symptoms suggesting (to me) demonic possession, the death of a beloved aunt, the death of a beloved uncle, the death of a beloved neighbor (I began to worry that merely by associating with these women, decades would be shorn from my life span), migraine headaches, and an unfortunate encounter with an angry Big Foot in a long line at the DMV

No one threatened my life; neither of these women had an unkempt beard (or a kempt one for that matter); neither of them presented us with a body-odor problem; and neither of them indulged in furious political rants that sprayed spittle on those of us who just wanted to make a TV movie.

That's why he lived a lonely life and locked all his doors so carefully

She had been very willing to speak about her life with my brother - which seemed a happy and ordinary one - up to the time he died

He enjoyed life, had a good sense of humour, loved children and animals, and could not bear to see anyone suffer.

He believed it would change life as we know it

My life depends on the help you give me.

And yet I knew that if I looked at the horror for much longer, I would go on screaming for the rest of my life.

I hope there is no life after death because, if there is, I shall never forget the horror! Day and night, awake or asleep, I see it, and I know that I will see it forever.

'Ah, yes I heard that Madame Delambre had been writing a lot, but we could find nothing but the short note informing us that she was taking her own life.'

It seems to me that if a young man had decided to take another man's life, he would not appear upset about it afterwards

'He writes very clever books, though in real life people are not nearly so unpleasant as he makes his characters

Clever young men know so little about life.'

Because he had read a few books, he thought he knew more than a man who has studied the subject all his life and...'

But in real life it is usually the most obvious one

She continued, 'You see, Len, I have something new coming into my life

It's coming into your life, too! And you can't call me a dear child any more when we have a real child of our own

It must be, if scientific thinking is correct, older than our world, and life on its surface began a long time before this Earth cooled down

Because it is hardly one seventh of the size of Earth, it cooled more quickly to the temperature at which life could begin

But people are so blind that no writer, before the end of the nineteenth century, suggested that much more intelligent life had developed there than on Earth

It was also not generally understood that because Mars is older and smaller than our Earth, and further from the sun, it is nearer life's end as well as further from its beginning.

The end of all life, which is a distant possibility for us, is an immediate problem for the Martians.

'Well, we have to invent a life where people can live and have children, and be safe enough to bring the children up

People who were still alive would start to return, and life would come back to the empty streets

Then came the thought of myself, of my wife, and the old life of hope and tender helpfulness that had ended forever.

All that time I felt a growing need to look again at whatever remained of the little life that had seemed so happy and bright in my past

I remember how bright that day seemed as I went sadly back to the little house in Woking - how busy the streets were, and how full of life

Before it there was a general belief that there was no life in space apart from on our tiny planet

So when the slow cooling of the sun means that we cannot continue to live on Earth, it may be that life which began here can reach out and continue there.

She ran away from him at last, and came back to England, where she changed her name and started a new life

With all the diseases I had, I knew my life was short

It saved my life

Montmorency doesn't like the quiet life

This is his idea of a happy life.

'How boring life is without mustard!' said George.

We felt that life was smiling at us again.

He didn't understand that his life was in danger.

Your private life is not my business, but you just said yourself that you wanted a man of your own

And a twenty-three-year-old child who chooses a silly way to fight life's problems

I can't sit and see her life going wrong without feeling it

Your life here will be very quiet

'I like a quiet life, and recently I had such an adventure that I don't want another one for years.' As we ate breakfast side by side like two old friends, I told Miss Halcombe about the woman in white

A drawing teacher must spend his life in the company of beautiful women who can never be his

My narrative ends here, at the end of the happiest period in my life.

There are things now that she will not discuss with me - her husband, her married life - but before we kept no secrets from each other.

Percival was attacked by thieves, and Count Fosco saved his life

The vicar says hello to me! But back then, when Anne was a child, my life was very hard

The next day we told Laura that her husband was dead and that her marriage, the greatest error of her life, was over.

I could now say goodbye to the ghostly figure who has haunted these pages as she haunted my life.

Malala used the name "Gul Makai" and began writing for the BBC (the United Kingdom's television and radio) about life with the Taliban

They learned things they needed for family life, like how to cook.

She spent her life writing and thinking.

In her book, Memoirs from a Women's Prison (1983), she wrote, "Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote

Lise was very famous late in her life, but she was not given the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

"I did not understand it at the time," she said later, "but I believe that little red aeroplane said something to me as it went by." In 1920, a pilot took her up in an aeroplane, and that changed her life

But there are still many things that stop women from enjoying an equal life.

"There are many problems in my life